2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Kyle]

What if 5 minutes is the length of each whole match?

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Kyle

What if 5 minutes is the length of each whole match?

I sure hope not, I can't stand five minutes of that much excitement at a time.

[mtaman02]

B/C there are so many teams and so little days to play the matches I highly doubt they would up the match time to 5 minutes, However I wouldn't be surprised if they reduced the match time to 1 1/2 minutes with a 15 - 30 second auto period. We shall see as I said before if there was more days to play each regional then 5 minutes can be done but since your limited to only 1 1/2 days (excluding the final rounds & awards) it would be very hard to make a 5 minute match.

Oh the Scoring Chaos

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

B/C there are so many teams and so little days to play the matches I highly doubt they would up the match time to 5 minutes, However I wouldn't be surprised if they reduced the match time to 1 1/2 minutes with a 15 - 30 second auto period. We shall see as I said before if there was more days to play each regional then 5 minutes can be done but since your limited to only 1 1/2 days (excluding the final rounds & awards) it would be very hard to make a 5 minute match.

Oh the Scoring Chaos

Chaos? What is this chaos you speak of? FIRST isn't chaotic; the rest of the world just moves in slow motion!

[maltz1881]

I've been giving this some thought. Forget all the water and such. Water and electronics don't mix. The diamond plate represents a baseball field. Diamond as in the field itself and plate being home. Maybe they are throwing balls at us instead of us throwing them. We have to catch the balls that are being thrown at us. 5 means 3rd base in baseball after we catch so many balls we have to run for home.
Remember the KISS factor Keep It Simple Stupid.
Me thinks some peeps read to much into things.. flying fish and monkeys and such!!!!! I will never get some sleep tonight

[Dominicano0519]

hello is anyone in there respective minds today

diamondplate is what the platform was made up of last year, am i right? of course

my guess is that it is either a feild item or the rondevous point for the game

i.e. the platform from 06
the bar from 04

the five however would suggest a scoring item maybe a target to shoot at and it would be worth five points like the center(high) goal last year.


anyway lets stop with all this flying monkey/fish and water with robots stuff
it's funny but still way too far from the point

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Dominicano0519

anyway lets stop with all this flying monkey/fish and water with robots stuff
it's funny but still way too far from the point

There was a point? *looks up* Oh, there it goes.



The diamond plate could be literal or metaphoric; either a field object/game piece or a pointer to something else. If the clue picture is actually from the animation, I'd say it was literal.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Kyle

What if 5 minutes is the length of each whole match?

More likely 5 periods of play.

1) Pre-Autonomous
2) Offensive Red
3) Offensive Blue
4) Offensive Both
5) Post-Autonomous

The green cathode could be used for the first four periods, and Red and Blue ones can be used for the Post-Auto over their respective goals.

[dgonza36502]

yup, I'm Confused - but could it be a moving target? like 1- 10 targets and are moving? target hit and relative point scored? Offense and defense positions? Hmmmm...

[Tottanka]

I'v got Dave's Bannana clue!!!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgerphone.php

and...
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/banana.php

[dgonza36502]

Either way I know our team is fired up (WOOHOO!!!), Ready and able !

[ZZII 527]

Just wanted to get my official last-minute predictions on record so that if any of them play out, I can prove it later.

0. Straight 3v3. I don't forsee a change in the number of 'bots and I don't think the "backbot" concept will make a return.

1. Game pieces will be rings of some type. My original though was dive rings, but after the most recent email, they may be custom-made rings.

2. While there will be no actual water, there will be a water theme, such as fishing for dive rings. Maybe they will have magnets or metal attached to them.

3. The most interesting field elements will be five circular, diamond plate-covered "islands," large enough for one robot only and maybe one foot in height. (Basically going with a literal interpretation of the hint.) I think four will be mobile (on casters), with the intention of one robot riding the island as another one pushes or pulls it across a body of "water" to another raised platform where scoring will occur (nearly impossible to score from in the "water"). The fifth island will be special somehow. Ending the game on these islands will net an alliance extra points.

4. Rings will be scored on pegs (the hard way) or in bins (the easy way) located well "inland" on the scoring platform. They may be of varying heights/point values, and marked by different color lights. De-scoring will not be allowed, but stealing mobile islands to strand opponents on the scoring platform will be a valid defensive strategy.

Very strange, and many interesting problems (lots of flipping, for one). But, that is my final prediction and I am sticking to it. Now I can sleep in peace...

[Manoel]

You were all looking for the wrong food type (bananas). With the 5 and the so-called smiley crowd, there's really nothing else left for the game to be other than this:



Less than a day, my friends, less than a day...

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

More likely 5 periods of play.

1) Pre-Autonomous
2) Offensive Red
3) Offensive Blue
4) Offensive Both
5) Post-Autonomous

The green cathode could be used for the first four periods, and Red and Blue ones can be used for the Post-Auto over their respective goals.

I like this idea...do you have insider information, by any chance?

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

More likely 5 periods of play.

1) Pre-Autonomous
2) Offensive Red
3) Offensive Blue
4) Offensive Both
5) Post-Autonomous

The green cathode could be used for the first four periods, and Red and Blue ones can be used for the Post-Auto over their respective goals.

I like the idea, but I don't know if they would start an autonomous period with random positioning (as would happen in a post autonomous). Imagine what would happen if a robot had a go straight RAM! RAM! RAM!! autonomous and they were positioned in an area that would lead to them shouldering and flying over the field barrier.